Shot Glass USB Delivers Party-Ready Power Hour Album

Music fans who consume 60 songs and 60 shots of beer in one hour will wind up really drunk (but musically enlightened), and that’s just the way fast-talking songwriter Ali Spagnola likes it.

To hype The Power Hour Album, Spagnola released the Shot Glass USB party pack, which comes with five dozen short tunes and two plastic cups. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania musician spent two years designing the product to expand on her audience-participation “drinking game” gigs.

“I wanted to make The Power Hour an object that people would want to physically own so it would be more special than just files to download,” Spagnola said in an email to Wired.com.

As she explains on YouTube, listeners sling a lanyard around their neck and take slugs from the attached cups at the end of each tune.

Spagnola’s booze-themed numbers encompass punk rock, country and peppy pop ditties like “Song in the Key of Empty.” She promises that drinking game participants who blow into empty beer bottles will sound perfectly in tune with the music.

Former Carnegie Mellon University art student Spagnola, who’s firming up SXSW shows in Austin to perform during a break from her day job as a graphic designer, hopes her gimmick becomes a hit among digitally-inclined party animals who can’t resist the Shot Glass USB marketing slogan. “It’s the perfect gift for the binge drinker,” she said.